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...washbasin on top of it. How any one could have got it there nobody knew. All the men in Cambridge went out and fired at it with their revolvers, but it was three or four hours before any one hit it. Then again they put a large tin cap on the top of the soldiers' monument on the common. It took all of the hook and ladder companies and a windy speech of the mayor's to get it off. There used to to be some knockers in college then. Two or three of them would tackle a whole crowd...
...lock like 7s sharps, and the silk, either of crimson, blue or black, is only such silk as may be purchased anywhere. The use to which the articles are devoted is to wear them with the silk wound in a knot about them, as ornaments for the buttonhole or cap. Altogether, the custom has only the merit of quaintness, and, even if not more honored in the breach than the observance, might, without loss to anybody, be discontinued...
...whole college is in mourning on account of the accidental shooting of Howe, a member of the sophomore class, by Flint, his classmate, on Saturday afternoon. It seems that Flint was intending to go hunting that afternoon, and while standing on the main street put a cap on his gun, which, as he supposed, was unloaded. By some unexplained means the gun was discharged in his hands and the whole charge lodged in the back of Howe who was walking by at less than a rod's distance. The injuries inflicted were so severe that he died in about three...
...noticed in your edition of the 18th inst., an extract from one of the Harvard publications, referring to the wearing of Oxford caps by Tufts students. The anxiety of the writer for the good name of Harvard is praiseworthy. It would have been well if H. U. students in times past had had a like regard for it. The disgraceful performances in Boston theatres, and other similar affairs, in which Cambridge students have played a conspicuous part, have rendered it unnecessary and almost impossible, for Tufts students, or any body else, to sully that "good name," which has been...
...attempt to introduce the mortar-board at Cornell has proved a failure. Although exchanges occasionally break out with the declaration that "the Oxford cap is worn at Cornell," it is not worn here nor has it been this year. - [Cornell...